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Vanguard launches Australian corporate bond ETF

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... investment-grade, Australian-issued bonds from corporations like Australia's four largest banks, overseas banks, other lending institutions and property trusts, for an annual management fee of 0.26%. The fund's top holdings includes bonds from Commonwealth ...

Insto oligopoly stifling advice M&A activity

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... still far more buyers than sellers for financial planning businesses due to 85% of licensees being controlled by six institutions, according to Connect Financial Service Brokers chief executive Paul Tynan. Despite what Tynan perceives as a strong demand ...

Australia joining global retirement focus: Challenger

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016
... Sydney yesterday, Benari said about four years ago 8% of Challenger's share registry was made up of foreign-owned institutions. Today it stands at 41% with most investors coming from the UK, wider Europe and North America. Benari said companies are leveraging ...

Boomers driving interest in PAFs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... their interests. They are a financial resource to make a difference to other people's lives. Supporting educational institutions for young people both in Australia and overseas in third world countries such as Kenya and Nepal and under privileged (indigenous ...

MyState appoints technology provider

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... between our people and our customers." Rubik Financial services 110 out of 171 Australian authorised deposit taking Institutions (ADIs), including all four major Australian banks. Rubik's software includes financial planning software, mortgage software ...

He pleaded, he promised, he threatened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... applying a negative interest rate of minus 0.1 percent to the Policy-Rate Balances in current accounts held by financial institutions at the Bank" and "conduct money market operations so that the monetary base will increase at an annual pace of about ...

StepStone signs KPMG investment team

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
... the team every success," the KPMG spokesperson said. The infrastructure team has been advising global investment institutions for more than 10 years and established KPMG's institutional investment advisory business in 2011. They will now take StepStone's ...

Financial services lend spotlight on nation's leading philanthropists

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... projects and how transformative the outcomes are to the community. Award submissions were made by the charitable institutions that then provided details of their projects, as well as the benefactors/philanthropists and the beneficiaries of those projects. ...

Multi-factor investing applies to credit too: Robeco

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... has primarily been associated with the equity portion of portfolios but Robeco believes there is a good case for institutions to consider it for fixed income as well. "What we generally have seen is that a lot of the theory that has primarily been applied ...

ASIC levies up 150pct

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
The federal government has released a discussion paper outlining proposed financial institutions supervisory levies for the 2016-17 financial year, citing a 150% increase in the total levies funding required for ASIC. The proposed levies reveal that ...